Make scanned PDFs searchable and copyable with optical character recognition (OCR). Upload your scanned document and our server runs Tesseract to extract text and embed it into the PDF — so you can search, select, and copy content from what was previously an image-only file. Supports English and many other languages.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts images of text into actual selectable text. Scanned PDFs are just images — OCR makes them searchable and allows you to copy text from them.
Tesseract supports dozens of languages. Select your document language before converting for the most accurate results.
Yes. OCR processing requires Tesseract running on our server. Your file is deleted automatically after you download the result.
Processing typically takes 30 to 60 seconds depending on the number of pages and the density of text. Multi-page documents take longer.
Yes. The output PDF retains the original visual layout with the recognised text embedded as an invisible layer behind it, making the document searchable without altering its appearance.
Make scanned PDFs searchable with accurate text recognition.
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